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title: 'Work-Life Balance'
description: 'Helps understand where work encroaches on personal time and what prevents people from fully recovering.'
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# Work-Life Balance

Helps understand where work encroaches on personal time and what prevents people from fully recovering.

## Key facts

- **Categories:** 5
- **Questions:** 14
- **Who to ask:** A company employee whose work tasks, communications, or vacation boundaries may intrude on personal time.
- **Topic:** Well-being and workload

## When to run it

Employees often work in the evenings, reply to messages on weekends, and cannot fully rest even on vacation. You want to measure the extent to which the boundaries between work and personal life are broken, and understand who triggers this rhythm—people or processes.

## What it will show

- **Overtime and workload manageability:** Shows how regularly work extends beyond the expected time frame and whether the workload can be renegotiated in time.
- **Availability outside working hours:** Shows whether there is an explicit or implicit expectation to respond to work messages, calls, and tasks after the workday.
- **Recovery and psychological detachment:** Shows whether the employee is able to stop carrying work in their mind and recover during personal time.
- **Vacation disconnection:** Shows whether the employee can genuinely disconnect on vacation thanks to task handover, coverage, and clear exceptions.
- **Boundary norms and manager support:** Shows how much rules on urgency, availability, and manager behavior make personal boundaries clear and respected.

## Example questions

- I regularly have to do work tasks in the evening, on weekends, or during personal time in order to meet work expectations.
  - **What it measures:** Understand how often completing tasks requires time outside the expected workday and becomes a normal way of meeting work expectations.
  - **Scale endpoints:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Open-ended clarification:** What helps tasks usually fit within working hours?
- After the workday, I usually check work chats, email, or tasks, even though I have no pre-agreed on-call duty.
  - **What it measures:** Understand how much the employee actually stays connected to work channels during personal time without a formal availability agreement.
  - **Scale endpoints:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Open-ended clarification:** What helps you comfortably avoid checking work channels after the workday?
- After the workday, work tasks often stay on my mind because of unfinished business, unclear priorities, or the expectation of urgency.
  - **What it measures:** Understand whether the way work is organized prevents the employee from mentally closing out the workday: whether there are open tasks, unclear next steps, blurred priorities, or the expectation of an urgent return to work.
  - **Scale endpoints:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Open-ended clarification:** What helps you mentally close out the workday and not keep tasks on your mind?

## What's in the report

The report will highlight pain points: the volume of uncontrolled overtime, the expectation to be available 24/7, the inability to psychologically detach from tasks, and the quality of rest. You will see where managers support healthy boundaries and where they break them themselves.

## Similar surveys

- [Burnout](https://yoseno.com/templates/burnout.md) — Helps understand whether employees have enough energy, recovery, and a sense that their work is useful.
- [Wellbeing (SHAPE)](https://yoseno.com/templates/wellbeing.md) — Helps understand whether employees have enough energy, support, and conditions for calm, sustainable work.